What's going on here with SvS?

[Jeava]

Hi all

Some may know by now that I've been trying my hand at a bit of SvS in the privateer sector. However one thing that's been bugging me about it alludes me. While in SvS many ships will fire what looks like a white cannon ball that almost unerringly hits. I've watched many times as one of these, what I assume to be Spectral cannonballs clearly misses my ship by several feet, and yet I take full damage. Not only do I take damage from these shots, but the damage seems to be increadable. The typical will be Moderate damage to my armor on the first shot, severe damage to my armor and moderate damage to my ship on the second, severe damage to my ship on the third and forth shots and final fifth shot is the killing blow. As I sayed before, these shots almost never miss either. I've witnessed these cannon balls hitting me even as they fly by! The only two possible explinations to this is (1) There is a grace zone around every ship that permits shots to hit even when they miss, and (2) the person(s) are cheating somehow. I'm not crying over getting beaten. But when you can fire five times without missing and take out a war frigate something is off. I'm going to attempt to take some screenshots of these tonight so you can see what I'm talking about. In the meantime, answers would be greatly appreciated if possible